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Brubaker/Brubacher Families of America

100th Annual Reunion

and

Celebration of 200 Years of Brubachers in Ontario 

 

–Program–

Friday August 5th, 2022

  • Our Roots — Tours (morning and afternoon), starting at 9:00am at **NEW** St. Jacobs Mennonite Church in nearby St. Jacobs.  (**This is a change from previously the tours were going to start at Shantz Mennonite Church**).  Click here to see a map showing the proximity of Shantz Church and St. Jacobs Church.

    • Local Tour Package #1

    • Local Tour Package #2
      • Brubacher House
      • First Brubacher (“A” branch) settlement sites in Waterloo Township
      • Pioneer Tower — built to commemorate the first settlers from Pennsylvania
      • First Brubacher settlers cemetery and church

(Lunch at noontime – at St. Jacobs Church for those participating in the tours)

(There will be a break between the end of the tours and the evening meal at Shantz Mennonite Church)

  • Registration begins at 4:30 PM
  • Evening meal and opening remarks (5:30 PM)
  • My Life Story (7:00 PM) – Daniel Brubaker, Chief Commissioner of the Michigan Supreme Court

Saturday morning August 6th, 2022 – Opening remarks at 9:00am

  • Our Roots — Our Anabaptist Roots – Dr. Demas Brubacher, Crystal River, FL
  • Our Roots — Switzerland – Dale Brubaker, Decatur, GA

    • Origins and History
    • Slide presentation of Brubacher points of interest

(Lunch at noontime)

Saturday afternoon August 6th, 2022

  • Our Roots — France and Germany – Dale Brubaker, Decatur, GA

    • Peter Bruppacher’s migration from Switzerland to Alsace and Ibersheim
    • Abraham Brubacher (father of D-1 John Brubacher) comes to the New World in 1749
    • Slide presentation of Brubacher points of interest
  • Our Ancestral Roots: Connecting the Dots – Dale Brubaker, Decatur, GA

    • Our ancestral story and genealogy
    • Our ancestors who were the progenitors of the alphabetized branches of the larger Brubacher-Brubaker-Brewbaker tree
  • Our Roots — Pennsylvania – Dr. J. Kenneth Brubaker, Mount Joy, PA and Martin Brubaker, Hagerstown, MD

    • Adjusting to the New World
    • Describe the original Brubaker settlements in Lancaster County, PA
    • The various “lines” of Brubachers and Brubakers
    • 100 years

(Dinner at 5:30pm)

Saturday evening August 6th, 2022

  • Our Roots — Ontario – David Brubacher, Cookstown, ON

    • The Land of Opportunity
    • 200 years
    • Why we came to Ontario
    • The Story of the Land Purchases

Sunday morning – Our Roots — Worship Service

  • Worship services available to participate in at either Shantz Mennonite Church or First Mennonite Church, located at the site of the church established by Benjamin Eby and Maria Brubacher
    • At First Mennonite Church recognition will be given to the founding of the church by Benjamin Eby, his wife Maria Brubacher, and her brother, Deacon John E. Brubacher.

Changes and modifications to the schedule may occur without notice

 

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